Table Of ContentIRC:SP:71-2018
GUIDELINES FOR DESIGN AND
CONSTRUCTION OF PRECAST
PRE-TENSIONED GIRDERS
FOR BRIDGES
(First Revision)
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CONTENTS
S.No. Description Page No.
Personnel of the Bridges Specifications and Standards Committee i-ii
1. Introduction 1
2. Scope 2
3. Design Requirements 2
4. Construction Requirements 9
References 14
IRC:SP:71-2018
PERSONNEL OF THE BRIDGES SPECIFICATIONS
AND STANDARDS COmmITTEE
(as on 23rd October, 2017)
1 Kumar, Manoj Director General (Road Development) & Special Secretary to Govt.
(Convenor) of India, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, New Delhi
2 Singh, B.N. Additional Director General, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways,
(Co-convenor) New Delhi
3 Verma, Dr.S.K. Chief Engineer S&R, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways,
(Member-Secretary) New Delhi
Members
4 Alam, Pervez Chief Operating Officer, Hindustan Construction Company Ltd.
5 Arora, D.S. Jt. Managing Director (Retd.), UP State Bridge Corporation Ltd.
6 Banerjee, A.K. Member (Technical) (Retd.), National Highway Authority of India
7 Bansal, Shishir Chief Project Manager, Delhi Tourism, DTTDC Ltd.
8 Basa, Ashok Managing Director, CEM Consultant (P) Ltd.
9 Bhowmick, Alok Managing Director, B&S Engineering Consultants Pvt. Ltd., UP
10 Bordoloi, A.C. Commissioner & Spl. Secretary, P.W.B. & N.H. Deptt (Retd.), PWD
Assam
11 Chand, Faqir Advisor, STUP
12 The CMD, Engg. Proj. (I) Ltd. Engineering Project (India) Ltd., New Delhi
(Bakshi, S.P.S.)
13 The Director General, BRO Border Roads Organization, New Delhi
(Shrivastava, Lt. Gen. S.K)
14 The Director General, Institute for Steel Development & Growth (INSDAG), Kolkata
INSDAG (Banerjee, Sushim)
15 Dheeraj Superintending Engineer, Ministry of Road Transport and
Highways, New Delhi
16 Dohare, R.D. Chief Engineer (Retd.), Ministry of Road Transport and Highways,
New Delhi
17 The Engineer-in-Chief, MES Military Engineer Service (MES), New Delhi
(Sharma AVSM, Lt. Gen.
Suresh)
18 Ghoshal, A. Principal Advisor, STUP Consultants (P) Ltd. Kolkata
19 Gupta, Dr. Supratic Asst. Professor, IIT, New Delhi
20 Heggade, V.N. Vice President, Gammon Engineers & Contractors, Mumbai
21 Khanna, Shobha Manager, M.P. Metro Rail Corporation
22 Kondai, Bikshapathi Director General, National Academy of Construction, Hyderabad
23 Kumar, Ashwani Superintending Engineer, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways,
New Delhi
24 Kumar, Satander Scientist (Retd.), CRRI
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25 Pandey, A.K. Superintending Engineer, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways,
New Delhi
26 Pandey, R.K. Member (Project), National Highway Authority of India (NHAI),
NewDelhi
27 Parameswaran, Dr. Lakshmy Chief Scientist (BAS), Central Road Research Institute (CRRI),
New Delhi
28 Patankar, V.L DG(RD)&SS (Retd.), Ministry of Road Transport and Highways,
New Delhi
29 Pateriya, Dr. I.K. Director (Technical), National Rural Road Development Agency,
New Delhi
30 Puri, S.K. DG(RD)&SS (Retd.), Ministry of Road Transport and Highways,
New Delhi
31 Raina, Dr. V.K. Consultant, World Bank
32 Raizada, Pratap S. Senior Vice President, Gammon India Ltd. Mumbai
33 Sharan, G. DG(RD)&SS (Retd.), Ministry of Road Transport and Highways,
New Delhi
34 Sharma, R.S. Managing Director, M/s STP Ltd., New Delhi
35 Shekhar, Saurav Director, SA Infra Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
36 Sinha, N.K. DG(RD)&SS (Retd.), Ministry of Road Transport and Highways,
New Delhi
37 Srivastava, A.K. Chief Engineer, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways,
New Delhi
38 Subbarao, Dr. Chairman & Managing Director, Construma Consultancy (P) Ltd.
Harshavardhan Mumbai
39 Tandon, Mahesh Prof. Managing Director, Tandon Consultants (P) Ltd., New Delhi
40 Verma, G.L. Managing Director, Engineering & Planning Constructions, New Delhi
Corresponding Members
1 Kand, Sunil C. Director, C.V Kand Consultant, Bhopal
2 Koshi, Ninan DG(RD)&SS (Retd.), Ministry of Road Transport and Highways,
New Delhi
3 Manjure, P.Y. Director, Freyssinet Prestressed Concrete Company Ltd (FPCC), Mumbai
4 Reddi, Dr. S.A. Former JMD GIL
5 The Director, SERC, (Iyer, Prof. Nagesh R)
Chennai
Ex-Officio Members
1 President, (Pradhan, N.K.)
Indian Roads Congress E-in-C cum Secretary,
Works Department, Odisha
2 Honorary Treasurer, (Kumar, Manoj)
Indian Roads Congress Director General (Road Development) & Spl. Secretary, Ministry of Road
Transport and Highways
3 Secretary General, Nirmal, Sanjay Kumar
Indian Roads Congress
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IRC:SP:71-2018
GUIDELINES FOR DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
OF PRECAST PRE-TENSIONED GIRDERS FOR BRIDGES
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 IRC:SP:71 was first published in 2006, which was in line with IRC:18, IRC:21 and
IS14268 with additional inputs from BS:5400, EURO and AASHTO Codes. In the year 2009,
IRC decided to adopt Limit State Method (LSM) approach for bridge design standards in the
country and gradually bring out new documents. In the year 2011, IRC:18 & IRC:21 have
been withdrawn and replaced by IRC:112 covering Limit State design approach.
1.2 The B-4 Committee was re-constituted in the year 2015 for three years period
and the committee in its first meeting decided to take up the task to align all existing Working
Stress Method (WSM) based special publications of IRC with IRC:112. Accordingly, the task
of revision of IRC:SP:71 was assigned to Shri Vinay Gupta and he carried out all requisite
modifications in line with IRC:112, which were discussed in several meetings of B-4 Committee
and finally approved in its meeting held on 11.10.2017. Thereafter, the draft document was
approved by the Bridges Specifications and Standards Committee in its meeting held on
23.10.2017. Finally, the document was considered by the IRC Council in its 213th meeting
held on 03.11.2017 during the Annual Session held at Bengaluru and was approved for
publication.
1.3 The personnel of the Concrete (Plain, Reinforced and Pre-stressed) Structures
Committee (B-4) are as under:
Tandon, Prof Mahesh …… Convenor
Kumar, Satander …… Co-Convenor
Viswanathan, T …… Member-Secretary
Members
Bansal, Shishir Bhide, D.A.
Bhowmick, Alok Gupta, R.K.
Gupta, Rohin Gupta, Vinay
Heggade, V.N. Joglekar, S.G.
Koneru, Bhavani Koshi, Ninan
Kurian, Jose Mathur, Ashok
Mittal, Dr. A.K. Mukherjee, M.K.
Mullick, Dr. A.K. Parameswaran, Dr (Mrs) Lakshmy
Rajeshirke, Umesh Sharma, Aditya
Singh, Brijesh Singh, Prof Bhupinder
Suthar, H.L. Verma, G.L.
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Corresponding Members
Jain, Dr. Sudhir K Manjure, P.Y.
Kand, Dr. C.V. Venkataram, P.G.
Ex-Officio Members
President, IRC DG(RD)&SS, MORTH
(Pradhan, N.K.) (Kumar, Manoj)
Secretary General, IRC
(Nirmal, S.K.)
2 SCOPE
2.1 These guidelines cover the specific design and construction requirements
pertaining to precast pre-tensioned girders, which may constitute a superstructure system.
Such structural systems may comprise precast girders in association with cast-in-situ/precast
deck slab and diaphragms, spliced girder system, precast pre-tensioned open or closed
box sections, precast pretensioned deck slab, integral bridge, etc. These superstructures
may either be simply supported, continuous or integral. In case of continuous or integral
superstructures, the continuity, integration may be achieved either through untensioned
reinforcement at the intermediate supports/joints, through post-tensioning or any suitable
method. In these type of construction, the decompression requirement as per Table 12.1 of
IRC:112 for the precast, pre-tensioned or post-tensioned girder sections over the negative
moment region need not be adhered to. However, the crack width requirement shall be
satisfied.
2.2 In pre-tensioning, the tendons are prestressed before concreting and prestress
transferred to the concrete, through bond, when it attains the requisite minimum strength and
maturity. Whereas, in the case of post-tensioning, tendons are prestressed after concrete
gains the requisite minimum strength and maturity. Fig. 1 depicts examples of precast
pretensioned girders made continuous over supports. Figs. 2 & 3 depict an example of a
pre-tensioned girder indicating bonded and debonded part of tendons which are specifically
required for stress control in pre-tensioned girders. Fig. 4 depicts a few possible shapes of
stirrups of precast girders.
3 DESIGN REqUIREmENTS
The loads and load combinations shall be as per IRC:6.
Design shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of IRC:112 except for the
modifications and additional provisions specified below, which need to be followed.
3.1 Basis of Design
ULS (flexure and shear design) and SLS designs shall be carried out as per Sections 8, 10
and 12 of IRC:112, as relevant, with some modifications as specified below. Sections 1 to
7, 13 to 18, Normative Annexures and Informative Annexures of IRC:112 apply, relevently.
Respective loads and load combinations shall be taken as per IRC:6.
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